Social media bots have become an increasingly challenging issue. They can trick you into buying stuff or even influence your opinion (read more about the trouble they can cause here). But one way to ...

Social media bots are fake accounts that use automated or semi-automated programming to infiltrate platforms and shape how humans behave online. Groups or individuals create social media bots for a ...

Is that hottie really just a bottie? Here are six ways you can tell the difference between real and fake accounts on Twitter. So I logged onto my favorite microblogging service a few days ago and was ...

Misinformation and disinformation have scaled in the Information Age. MIT researchers analyzed 126,000 stories between 2006 and 2016 and found that false stories spread six times faster than true ...

Friday’s Adalytics report about ads being served en masse to known bots leaves plenty of unanswered questions. But they mainly boil down to this: How could so many different verification providers and ...

Back in 2011, a team from Texas A&M University carried out a cyber sting to trap nonhuman Twitter users that were polluting the Twittersphere with spam. Their approach was to set up “honeypot” ...